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Ah, how cute. The bitter beev trying to devalue a team playing for a football NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. Meanwhile, all the beevs were at home for the bowl season and have never come close to doing such. Biggest loss/failure ... sure was. Losing by 3 points to the national champ. Huge failure. Almost as huge of a loss/failure as losing at home to a Wazzu team that hadn't won a Pac-10 game in nearly 3 years. If a failure is going 12-0 in the round robin Pac-10, first team ever to do so, make the BCS Title game, and beat your "rival" for the third year in a row, I'll take a failure any day of the week. But you can continue leading by example and showing us all what it means to be a failure.

Yes, Dalembert could've been had at any time this summer. He and his $13 MILLION price tag. You do realize that he makes $2 million more than our starting center, Marcus Camby? It's not like Dalembert was a free agent walking around asking for the MLE.

Calling baseball one of the "major" college sports is cute. There are two. That's it.

Those baseball titles are major accomplishments and great achievements, but putting them on the same level as football or basketball title is absurd. Playing for a football national championship is equivalent to winning five baseball titles.

Oh poor lackapunch. It's too bad sour fans like you have to come in and destroy an entire comment thread before it gets started due to blind obsession and hatred for an institution that cares nothing for your brilliant opinions. I know you didn't actually read this article, because that would be asking too much and would likely take time away from your game show and Springer watching, but maybe you should take a cue from your coach and mix in a bit of humility and intelligence with your words. Such poignant statements as "Eff the hole" are a great start.

That's a great observation pos ...except for the fact I didn't take or ask for any credit in any of the success (though my tuition dollars count for something). I wasn't aware fans were required to make plays. The only thing your comment makes is no sense.

It also represents: the number of Civil Wars your team has won of the last 3, the bowl your team played in this season, the number of outright Pac-10 titles your team has won in the last 10 years, the number of BCS bowls your team has prevented the Ducks from going to the last two seasons, and the number of Rose Bowls your team has been to in the last 50 years, etc.. Oregon may not have won the national championship, but at least Oregon played for a national championship.

Sigh..... no, I wasn't comparing Aldridge to KG. Reading comprehension is tough. The point was KG has thrived in the NBA as a face up power forward who succeeds picking and popping, shooting 12 footers. He's not an old school, back to the basket banger. Either is Dirk. Those types of PFs, other than Pau, who can do both, or Duncan, who can do both, don't exist in today's game. Would you consider either of those guys "tough"? You can ignore the stats all you want, doesn't make them any less relevant or change the fact that your boy Ty Thomas is a backup. A backup to Boris Diaw.

Ouch, being called an idiot from someone as noble as yourself really, really hurts. To help you out, here's the definition of noble: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/noble Name calling is always a sign of intelligence and a sound argument.

Thomas is 6-9. He's not a power forward, he's just an athlete. He can jump high, dunk on the break and block an occasional 2 guard. I'll give him credit, he plays to his strengths. He just doesn't play hard all the time. Which was the reason Chicago gave up on him and the reason he only plays 21 minutes a night in Charlotte. Who else plays to his strengths? Aldridge. His strength is the 8-12 footer. He's never going to be a banger on the block. You know who else isn't? KG. Seems like he's made it work pretty well.

Rebounds? Thomas has 9 or more rebounds 3 times this season. Aldridge has 9 or more in 9 games. But don't let the actual numbers get in your way.